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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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You fail to realize how badithe rest of us have it. I wish for your problems. Not that you are wrong and shouldn't be mad, but you still have it good.
No I do realise. But the post specifically said "the rest of the world is building subways". I was pointing out: hey, no, that's not true. Not unless you count something being called "Metro" that definitively is not a Metro.